Shayna's episode and also her blog made me sad. :( That is not the best way she can be portrayed, and not her personality. I will write a blog about it later, but basically...

Shanya has indeed been passed up for opportunities. A few years ago she won a local MMA tournament, and the winner was supposed to get signed to ...I forget, Strikeforce or some large organization. She won but never got the contract! She didn't get signed to the UFC and feels she should have. She IS super talented and has all this unique catch wrestling experience and experience against other girls...

so much of what she's saying, I'm sure isn't directed at Julianna as a person. But at the situation. If it was Sally Brown who was 3-0, Shayna would be saying the same thing, based on experience. I'm sure she's also trying to give herself confidence so she can win her fight. We all want to make ourselves confident by telling ourselves 'I can do it! she's nothing!" but the way it came across was trash talking. And she didn't get along with Julianna, so that came through in the blog, too. :(

Not the best representation of Shayna, unfortunately. She is a super cool and respectful person. This is the first time I've seen this, and I think it's born out of this situation.

Rox19 - Shayna's episode and also her blog made me sad. :( That is not the best way she can be portrayed, and not her personality. I will write a blog about it later, but basically...

Shanya has indeed been passed up for opportunities. A few years ago she won a local MMA tournament, and the winner was supposed to get signed to ...I forget, Strikeforce or some large organization. She won but never got the contract! She didn't get signed to the UFC and feels she should have. She IS super talented and has all this unique catch wrestling experience and experience against other girls...

so much of what she's saying, I'm sure isn't directed at Julianna as a person. But at the situation. If it was Sally Brown who was 3-0, Shayna would be saying the same thing, based on experience. I'm sure she's also trying to give herself confidence so she can win her fight. We all want to make ourselves confident by telling ourselves 'I can do it! she's nothing!" but the way it came across was trash talking. And she didn't get along with Julianna, so that came through in the blog, too. :(

Not the best representation of Shayna, unfortunately. She is a super cool and respectful person. This is the first time I've seen this, and I think it's born out of this situation.

Rox19 - Shayna's episode and also her blog made me sad. :( That is not the best way she can be portrayed, and not her personality. I will write a blog about it later, but basically...

Shanya has indeed been passed up for opportunities. A few years ago she won a local MMA tournament, and the winner was supposed to get signed to ...I forget, Strikeforce or some large organization. She won but never got the contract! She didn't get signed to the UFC and feels she should have. She IS super talented and has all this unique catch wrestling experience and experience against other girls...

so much of what she's saying, I'm sure isn't directed at Julianna as a person. But at the situation. If it was Sally Brown who was 3-0, Shayna would be saying the same thing, based on experience. I'm sure she's also trying to give herself confidence so she can win her fight. We all want to make ourselves confident by telling ourselves 'I can do it! she's nothing!" but the way it came across was trash talking. And she didn't get along with Julianna, so that came through in the blog, too. :(

Not the best representation of Shayna, unfortunately. She is a super cool and respectful person. This is the first time I've seen this, and I think it's born out of this situation.

Maybe she should try being humble at some point might help her advance further in life in general.

Rox19 - Shayna's episode and also her blog made me sad. :( That is not the best way she can be portrayed, and not her personality. I will write a blog about it later, but basically...

Shanya has indeed been passed up for opportunities. A few years ago she won a local MMA tournament, and the winner was supposed to get signed to ...I forget, Strikeforce or some large organization. She won but never got the contract! She didn't get signed to the UFC and feels she should have. She IS super talented and has all this unique catch wrestling experience and experience against other girls...

so much of what she's saying, I'm sure isn't directed at Julianna as a person. But at the situation. If it was Sally Brown who was 3-0, Shayna would be saying the same thing, based on experience. I'm sure she's also trying to give herself confidence so she can win her fight. We all want to make ourselves confident by telling ourselves 'I can do it! she's nothing!" but the way it came across was trash talking. And she didn't get along with Julianna, so that came through in the blog, too. :(

Not the best representation of Shayna, unfortunately. She is a super cool and respectful person. This is the first time I've seen this, and I think it's born out of this situation.

Hey Roxy I think you are talking about the FCF tourney that Shayna was in and won? Yes she was suppose to win a Strikeforce contract and nothing came of it back then.

Look in the end there's two sides of this. You can bitch that any amount of confidence doesn't cross the line into cockiness and that fans don't have the right and this that and the other, and the side that, you agreed to go on Jersey Shore for MMA and know what it can do or not do for an image and take responsibility for saying what you say.

If some director is literally poking these fighters with a stick to talk "deserve, and shouldn't breath my air" then fine we're all as fans totally off base but I doubt there is. We pay for the fights, we watch the shows, don't get mad when something you say pisses off more people than it sits well with, there's ALWAYS a line where balance exists, it's part of the vague and vast social contract and always has been.

That being said, this show has never established how much encouraging it does with this shit, but that blog just piled on the sour so, like so many athletes in major sports are finding out, it's often better to detele the Twitter account and forgo the blogs if you are too knee-jerky emotional. None of this makes Shayna or Rousey a bad person just, cringe worthy with the extra jabs and anger. It happens but it becomes tiresome fast with every athlete who does it in sports.

ANd as a reference for what JP and Brett's situation are about, they are both 3rd and 2nd year players who struggled this year along with the team. When the fans took to their twitters to demand better in various ways, JP and BRett both outgoing emotional guys lashed out at Fans and local broadcasters that weren't constantly positive and apologetic which backfired horribly and affected their game even further.

They eventually had to delete their social media accounts for the betterment of their careers and the team. It hasn't really worked for Arencibia, because well, he's a terrible catcher defensively but it's a lesson, and the more fans a sport has the WORSE IT WILL BE FOR AN ATHLETE

The further lesson is, that if negative feedback affects you, as is evidence by Jessamyn coming to your defense, you are better served by focusing on your game and leaving the social media alone, no matter what the UFC wants of you. It is not worth it affecting your training or fights if it, or slights in your career do. We pay but we do not have an expectation of interaction with you, that is a bonus that too many take for granted and reciprocally cross the line with.

Lol. Unbelievable ego. Thinks she is the greatest fighter in history just based on fight numbers rather than skill. She poses no threat to the top of the division and whilst she still may get her chance, if you've been working this hard at something and lose to an untested brawler with inferior technique to you, then perhaps time to take a step back.

Whilst editing can be misleading this blog shows she has hardly been humbled.

Reminds me of that guy Kaplan who thought he was the most amazing fighter only to provide us with the funniest moment in TUF history with his KO in the house.

jTheHybridwolff - TTT for Shayna confidants or cockiness either way I'm a fan not going to let one fight on a tv show change that

You part of the Queens Army? lol

Lol sure if it means I'm a fan of hers and I'm not going to let a known highly edited show skew my opinion on her she lost looked bad but IMO she takes that fight 9 out of 10 times

Member since before 2001,and I rarely post. "I Never vote", but VTFU for this. Shaynas getting side-swiped, and I aint budging.Editing, mis-direction, what-EVER. You people have the wrong impression of Shayna, it's sad.

jTheHybridwolff - TTT for Shayna confidants or cockiness either way I'm a fan not going to let one fight on a tv show change that

You part of the Queens Army? lol

Lol sure if it means I'm a fan of hers and I'm not going to let a known highly edited show skew my opinion on her she lost looked bad but IMO she takes that fight 9 out of 10 times

Member since before 2001,and I rarely post. "I Never vote", but VTFU for this. Shaynas getting side-swiped, and I aint budging.Editing, mis-direction, what-EVER. You people have the wrong impression of Shayna, it's sad.

Thank you sir ! It's true we all know they edit the hell out of this show but It's Ez to give your 2cents based on whatcha watched on tv last night or the night before

I have no idea what has been said already, but i know from experience that Shayna's problem in this fight was exacerbated by poor coaching from her team, and that disappoints me, as i am a huge fan of Ronda. She went into this fight with a feeling of entitlement. ENTITLEMENT. An age old problem in martial arts, but only a recent one in MMA, as it hasn't been around that long.

People who have been in the game for a long time start to believe that their experience will overcome any newcomer. Just like black belts of old always believed they could beat those unranked in their style. Real, or even MMA fights don't work that way.

MMA is heading down the path of traditional martial arts that started it's formation in the first place - look to Bruce Lee and his disdain for the 'classical mess', and the problem with higher ranks truly believing that they csn beat newcomers in a real fight. Often they are correct. But, sometimes, that newcomer has enough heart, fitness and sheer bloody-mindedness to ignore all your honed fighting skills and give you a beating.

Ronda should have recognised this in Shayna, and advised her not to think of her opponent as un-entitled to the fight, but as a serious threat to her chance at winning. Perhaps this is something that Ronda herself is having a problem with, and this will help her in her own career, but it was a bad attitude to enter the fight with for Shayna, who really was a legitimate contender for Ronda herself, up until this.

Anyway, Shayna has the ability and the experience, but the old dogs need to respect the new, hungry dogs in the hunt for leader of the pack. A fight really IS different to training, in so many ways.

jTheHybridwolff - TTT for Shayna confidants or cockiness either way I'm a fan not going to let one fight on a tv show change that

You part of the Queens Army? lol

Lol sure if it means I'm a fan of hers and I'm not going to let a known highly edited show skew my opinion on her she lost looked bad but IMO she takes that fight 9 out of 10 times

Member since before 2001,and I rarely post. "I Never vote", but VTFU for this. Shaynas getting side-swiped, and I aint budging.Editing, mis-direction, what-EVER. You people have the wrong impression of Shayna, it's sad.

Thank you sir ! It's true we all know they edit the hell out of this show but It's Ez to give your 2cents based on whatcha watched on tv last night or the night before

I'm not really arguing any side here but I just want to point out that her blog is the thing that really seemed to fuel this fire and that was not 'highly edited'

It was written 3 months later by her. That can't be put down to being emotional after a loss etc... Or bad editing.

Nothing wrong with confidence at all. But there is something very wrong with saying your opponent does not belong on the same stage as you and should be attending your seminars. If a fighter is going to be that kind of arrogant they have lost the right to whine when people start tossing the humble pie.

jTheHybridwolff - TTT for Shayna confidants or cockiness either way I'm a fan not going to let one fight on a tv show change that

You part of the Queens Army? lol

Lol sure if it means I'm a fan of hers and I'm not going to let a known highly edited show skew my opinion on her she lost looked bad but IMO she takes that fight 9 out of 10 times

Member since before 2001,and I rarely post. "I Never vote", but VTFU for this. Shaynas getting side-swiped, and I aint budging.Editing, mis-direction, what-EVER. You people have the wrong impression of Shayna, it's sad.

Talks all that smack then weeks after the fact is still talking smack. Learn some humility lady u lost. How would u feel if your opponent mocked you in the public eye about having over a decade of experience and can't even beat a young up in commer with a fraction of your experienc.

ILoveWatchingJonesBoneShogun - She is 15-8, lost to every real fighter she has faced. Might not even be top 10, who cares about her, people talk as if she is Fedor or somebody lol. She has no reason to be cocky

I agree. She has never impressed me as a fighter and the game is only becoming more competitive.

ILoveWatchingJonesBoneShogun - She is 15-8, lost to every real fighter she has faced. Might not even be top 10, who cares about her, people talk as if she is Fedor or somebody lol. She has no reason to be cocky

I agree. She has never impressed me as a fighter and the game is only becoming more competitive.

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